Child Outcomes

Archived Publications

Jul 2004 The Impacts of Household Wealth on Child Development
Apr 2004 The Foundation for Child Development Index of Child Well-Being (CWI), 1975 to 2002, with Projections For 2003
Mar 2004 What Does Government Spend on Children? Evidence from Five Cities
Mar 2004 Persistence and Change in the Food Security of Families with Children: 1997-99
Feb 2004 Child and Youth Well-Being Under Welfare Reform: State Policy Options
Feb 2004 Child and Youth Well-Being Under Welfare Reform: Recent Research
Jan 2004 Changes in Children's Well-Being and Family Environments
Dec 2003 Geography of Low Income Families and Children
Dec 2003 Starting Kindergarten and Already Behind: A Statistical Portrait of Vulnerable Young Families
Dec 2003 Teens and TANF: How Adolescents Fare Under the Nation's Welfare Program
Dec 2003 Where Do Children in Low-Income Families Live?
Sep 2003 Association of Maternal Obesity and Depressive Symptoms With Television-Viewing Time in Low-Income Preschool Children
Sep 2003 The Changing Demographics of Low-Income Families and Their Children
Sep 2003 The Children Left Behind: Deeper Poverty, Fewer Supports
Sep 2003 The Growing Number of Kids in Severely Distressed Neighborhoods: Evidence from the 2000 Census
Sep 2003 Living at the Edge: Low Income and Hardship Among America's Kindergartners
Sep 2003 Public Attitudes Toward Low-Income Families and Children Research Report 1: Circumstances Dictate Public Views of Government Assistance
Aug 2003 America's Children: Key Indicators of Well-Being, 1997-2003
Jul 2003 California's Children: How Are They Faring?
Jul 2003 How Kids are Doing: The Mismatch between Public Perception and Statistical Reality
Jun 2003 Children's Living Arrangements and Characteristics: March 2002
Jun 2003 Serving America's Youngest: A Snapshot of Early Head Start Children, Families, Teachers, and Programs in 2002
May 2003 Family Support and Parent Involvement in Head Start: What Do Head Start Program Performance Standards Require?
May 2003 Promoting the Health of Poor Preschool Children: What Do Federal Head Start Performance Standards Require?
Mar 2003 Do Public Expenditures Improve Child Outcomes in the U.S.: A Comparison Across Fifty States
Mar 2003 State Profiles of Child Well-Being: Results from the 2000 Census
Jan 2003 Role of Parental Work in Child Poverty
Dec 2002 Children in American Samoa: Results of the 2000 Census
Dec 2002 Children in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands: Results of the 2000 Census
Dec 2002 Kids Count Census Data Online
Nov 2002 Child Living Arrangements by Race and Income: A Supplementary Analysis
Nov 2002 Children in Guam
Nov 2002 Children in Poverty: Trends, Consequences and Policy Options
Nov 2002 Minorities as Majority: Disproportionality in Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice
Sep 2002 Beyond Child Poverty: The Social Exclusion of Children
Sep 2002 A First Look at Children in the U.S. Virgin Islands
Sep 2002 Religious Involvement and Children's Well-Being: What Research Tells Us (And What It Doesn't)
Sep 2002 Set for Success: Building a Strong Foundation for School Readiness Based on the Social-Emotional Development of Young Children
Aug 2002 The Changing Face of Child Poverty in California
Aug 2002 Children and Welfare Reform: What Policy Theories are Being implemented in States Where Most Poor Children Live?
Aug 2002 Promoting the Emotional Well-Being of Children and Families
Apr 2002 Are Children Whose Parents Left Welfare Better Off?
Apr 2002 The Recession Hits Children: 2001 Undoes Much of the ‘90s Employment Gains for Parents
Apr 2002 Trends in the Well-Being of America's Children and Youth
Apr 2002 The Unfinished Business of Welfare Reform: Improving Prospects for Poor Children and Youth
Apr 2002 Welfare's Children
Mar 2002 Child Poverty in the United States
Mar 2002 Early Childhood Poverty: A Statistical Profile
Feb 2002 Children at Risk: State Trends 1990-2000
Feb 2002 Early Head Start (Volume 23, Issue 1-2)
Feb 2002 The Effect of Increasing Welfare Mothers’ Education on their Young Children’s Academic Problems and School Readiness
Oct 2001 Food Review: Examining the Well-Being of Children
Aug 2001 How Children Fare in Welfare Experiments Appears to Hinge on Income
Jul 2001 Births: Preliminary Data for 2000
Apr 2001 Education for All Young Children: The Role of States and the Federal Government in Promoting Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten
Apr 2001 In-Home Visitation Programs: A Review of the Literature
Apr 2001 State of America's Children: Yearbook 2001
Mar 2001 Child Development and Medicaid: Attitudes of Mothers with Young Children Enrolled in Medicaid
Mar 2001 A Fresh Start for Head Start?
Feb 2001 The Right Start: Conditions of Babies and their Families in America's Largest Cities
2001 Children's Welfare Exposure and Subsequent Development
2001 Lessons From New Hope: The Impact on Children’s Well-Being
2001 Welfare Reform and Child Well-Being
Dec 2000 Do Children From Welfare Families Obtain Less Education?
Dec 2000 Map and Track: State Initiatives for Young Children and Families, 2000 Edition
Dec 2000 Welfare Reform Consequences for Children: The Wisconsin Experience
Oct 2000 Expensive Children in Poor Families: The Intersection of Childhood Disabilities and Welfare
Aug 2000 Child Poverty in the States: Levels and Trends from 1979 to 1998
Jul 2000 Poverty and Welfare Patterns: Implications for Children
Feb 2000 America's Children: Challenges for the 21st Century
Feb 2000 America's Kindergartners
Feb 2000 Better Strategies for Babies: Strengthening the Caregivers and Families of Infants and Toddlers
Feb 2000 Serving Children and Youth Through the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Block Grant
Jan 2000 The Consequences of Food Insecurity for Child Well-Being: An Analysis of Children's School Achievement, Psychological Well-Being, and Health
Dec 1999 Children in Cities: Uncertain Futures
Nov 1999 Beyond Work: Strategies to Promote the Well-Being of Young Children and Families in the Context of Welfare Reform
Jun 1999 Enhancing the Well-Being of Young Children and Families in the Context of Welfare Reform
Apr 1999 Improving Outcomes for Teen Parents and Their Young Children by Strengthening School-Based Programs: Challenges, Solutions and Policy Implications
  A Century of Children's Health and Well-Being
  All Kids Count! Assessing the Well-Being of African-American, American Indian, Asian, and Latino Children
  America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well Being, 2001
  California: A Report Card 2001
  Child, Youth, and Family Indicators
  Children in Michigan: An Early Look at the 2000 Census Data
  Early Childhood Intervention Programs: What Are the Costs and Benefits?
  Early Childhood Longitudinal Study--Kindergarten Class of 1998-99
  Evaluation of Family Preservation and Reunification Programs: Interim Report
  Experimental Studies of Welfare Reform and Children
  Federal and State Efforts to Improve Care for Infants and Toddlers
  Good Start, Grow Smart: The Bush Administration's Early Childhood Initiative
  Five Commentaries: Looking Toward the Future
  Illinois Kids Count 2002: Supporting the Changing Family
  Keeping Track of New York City's Children
  Kids Count Project
  2001 Kids Count Data Book
  2002 Kids Count Data Book
  Oregon’s Shrinking Safety Net: Welfare’s Decreasing Role in Meeting the Needs of Families With Dependent Children During Recessions
  Reforms and Child Development
  The Right Start for America's Newborns: A Decade of City and State Trends (1990-1999)
  Save the Children State of the World's Mothers 2003
  Trends in the Well-Being of America’s Children and Youth - 1999
  Trends in the Well-Being of America’s Children and Youth - 2000
  Trends in the Well-Being of America’s Children and Youth 2001
  What We Know about Early Childhood Interventions